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Trying to win a brand-new car
The USC pair say they will donate monetary equivalent to Ghana, Armenia.
By ARIN MIKAILIAN
Contributing Writer
Two USC students have packed up their belongings and are heading on a road trip in hopes of winning a brand-new car, but there’s one catch — their car isn’t going anywhere.
Through Friday night, seniors Anna Grigoryan and Dolce Wang will be "livin’ large” in the relatively I see Aveo, page 3 I
uieevens Alconcel i uany irojan
Win big. Seniors Dolce Wang, left, majoring in mechanical engineering, and Anna Grigoryan, front, majoring in health promotion and disease prevention studies, on the Chevy Aveo.
HI Tllll.ll
INSIDE
Gore yourself out with a special Halloween
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
www.aailytrojan.com
October 31,2006
No. 49
Activists lob meat,
By KAELYN FORDE ECKENRODE
Staff Writer
A battle of political extremists ended in the throwing of meat and condoms Friday as about a dozen protesters from the LaRouche Youth Movement interrupted a lecture by an Ayn Rand Institute speaker.
Department of Public Safety officers asked the protesters to leave after they threw meat and condoms and interrupted the speaker by singing politically charged songs. The protest was one of several the LYM has organized against ARI events.
The USC Objectivist Club hosted Andrew Bernstein of Marist University as its speaker
for a lecture titled, “Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Poverty and Oppression.”
Witnesses said that as Bernstein spoke, an LYM member unwrapped a raw steak and slammed it onto Bernstein’s notes on the podium.
“I believe he said, 'On behalf of the LaRouche campaign, we dedicate this raw meat to you for supporting a philosophy that results in the death of millions of children,”’ said Blake Adams, a freshman majoring in business administration and a member of the Objectivist Club.
Witnesses said that the protesters also stood up and sang in unison about the death of Muslims during the Iraq war.
UCLA ticket
lines run down Trousdale
Many students forgot to purchase tickets on their assigned pickup dates.
By VICTOR FARFAN
Contributing Writer
The Ticket Office was jam-packed Monday with students waiting to purchase USC-UCLA football tickets.
The line stretched beyond the office’s open doors and extended outside of the Student Union Building, spilling onto Trousdale Parkway.
Many students worried the Ticket Office would close its doors and they wouldn’t be able to buy their tickets; however, the office decided to accommodate students by remaining open well past its 5 p.m. closing time.
Shannon Forbes Burkhead, a sophomore majoring in political science, waited 40 minutes to purchase her tickets.
“I feel like I’m waiting in a line at Disney World,” she said.
“Only there's no Space Mountain at the end.”
Some students forgot that today was their assigned day to pick up tickets and remembered Once they saw
the long line. ——•- : - -~r~ - --------
“I didn’t know about it until I saw the line at 4 (p.m.),” said Tonya Diller-Robertson, a senior majoring in accounting. »
“But I had to go to class.... I wish (the Ticket Office) would have given us a reminder.”
Other students were upset they had to bring the Spirit Activities Card of another student in order to redeem more than one ticket.
Laura Keller, a junior majoring in print journalism, couldn’t buy her tickets because she.
Like many othej: students, forgot to bring another Activities Card with her and had to call a friend and wait for her to arrive.
“I think they should have highlighted the fact that you needed to bring another Activities Card,” Keller said.
Debra Duncan, director of the Ticket Office, said the line only became busier toward the end of the day.
Duncan said the Ticket Office sent e-mails assigning students separate purchase dates in order to prevent everyone from showing up on the same day.
Many students, however, missed their appointed days.
For students who have not yet picked up their tickets for the UCLA game, today is the last day to do so.
condoms
“During parts of the lecture, they sang songs in protest against the treatment of Muslims,” said Ilya Golosker, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering. “People started yelling and interrupting Bernstein.” "Nuclear holocaust is the ARI policy,” said Michael Steger, a spokesman for the LaRouche Political Action Committee, “Their director, Yaron Brook, is a Nazi who has called for the death of civilian Muslims to end the Iraq war.”
Witnesses said a purple-robed protester also interrupted the lecture, claimed that he was Ayn Rand and threw condoms with Vice President Dick Cheney’s and other political
I see Protest, page 3 I
INDEX
Trojans take more businesslike approach after weekend loss to Oregon State. 16
Obama’s visit to USC could be better spent elsewhere. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle.............. 7
Upcoming_________2 Classifieds.......12
Opinions...,.........4 Sports.............16
WEATHER
Today: Cloudy. High 69, low 56.
Tomorrow: Cloudy. High 73. low 58.
Halloween is more than candy and costumes
The Irish Celtic festival came to America after 2 million Irish immigrated to the United States in the mid 19th century.
By MMME OXMAN
Staff Writer
Wilshire Boulevard’s Sav-on looked like it had been hit by a tornado at. 7 p.m. Friday. With hardly any candy left in the store, the shelves were emptier than ever.
Teens were trying on the few costumes left in the costume aisle, and mothers were moving bins around to find favorite candies that might have been hidden on the shelves.
Spending this Halloween is expected to reach $4.96 billion, a significant jump from the $3.29 billion spent last year, according to the National Retail Federation’s Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch.
Nearly two-thirds, or 63.8 percent, of consumers will celebrate Halloween
this year, up from the 52.5 percent who celebrated in 2005, according to the survey.
Nearly 75 percent of consumers will hand out candy, one of the most popular Halloween activities. Almost 35 percent of consumers will dress in costumes and slightly less than 20 percent will visit a haunted house.
Consumers are expected to increase personal spending as well. The survey found the average consumer plans to spend about $60 on Halloween this year, up from about $50 last year.
Although the secularized and commercialized Halloween is now the most recognizable form of the holiday, some people might not realize Halloween originated by the Celts as a harvest festival.
Jaclyn Kalkhurst, the student leader of Pagan and Wiccans at USC and a
junior majoring in theater stage management, said she understands where the symbolism of today’s Halloween festivities comes from.
“The portrayal of witches comes from witch burnings,” Kalkhurst said. The idea of ghosts corresponds to the focus on ancestors during this time and the fact that this is a death period for nature, she said.
“Now you can dress up as whatever you want,” Kalkhurst said. “So it’s all an extended version of this symbolism.”
The agricultural and spiritual time of reflection has changed from religious festivities to a commercialized holiday of costumes and candy in America. It has also become one of retailers’ favorite days of the year.
Mass-produced Halloween costumes did not appear in stores in America until the 1950s, when trick-or-treating became a fixture of the holiday.
“We don’t focus on the harvest like before,” Kalkhurst said. “It’s a completely different celebration now where
kids dress up.”
The Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, associate dean of Religious Life, said she doesn’t enjoy the commercialization of Halloween but can ignore it
“Deep down, Fm glad the folk memory exists,” she said.
Halloween traditions have changed since the holiday’s induction into America after the trans-Atlantic migration of about 2 million people from Ireland following the Irish potato famine during the middle of the 19th century.
When Halloween was celebrated during that period, it was a day filled with religious festivities and European traditions and was later appropriated by Christian missionaries.
Many European traditions consider Halloween as a time during the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world. It is also a time when magic is most potent.
Davenport said Celtic traditions have a strong sense of living with the
I see Halloween, page 6 I

Trying to win a brand-new car
The USC pair say they will donate monetary equivalent to Ghana, Armenia.
By ARIN MIKAILIAN
Contributing Writer
Two USC students have packed up their belongings and are heading on a road trip in hopes of winning a brand-new car, but there’s one catch — their car isn’t going anywhere.
Through Friday night, seniors Anna Grigoryan and Dolce Wang will be "livin’ large” in the relatively I see Aveo, page 3 I
uieevens Alconcel i uany irojan
Win big. Seniors Dolce Wang, left, majoring in mechanical engineering, and Anna Grigoryan, front, majoring in health promotion and disease prevention studies, on the Chevy Aveo.
HI Tllll.ll
INSIDE
Gore yourself out with a special Halloween
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
www.aailytrojan.com
October 31,2006
No. 49
Activists lob meat,
By KAELYN FORDE ECKENRODE
Staff Writer
A battle of political extremists ended in the throwing of meat and condoms Friday as about a dozen protesters from the LaRouche Youth Movement interrupted a lecture by an Ayn Rand Institute speaker.
Department of Public Safety officers asked the protesters to leave after they threw meat and condoms and interrupted the speaker by singing politically charged songs. The protest was one of several the LYM has organized against ARI events.
The USC Objectivist Club hosted Andrew Bernstein of Marist University as its speaker
for a lecture titled, “Global Capitalism: The Solution to World Poverty and Oppression.”
Witnesses said that as Bernstein spoke, an LYM member unwrapped a raw steak and slammed it onto Bernstein’s notes on the podium.
“I believe he said, 'On behalf of the LaRouche campaign, we dedicate this raw meat to you for supporting a philosophy that results in the death of millions of children,”’ said Blake Adams, a freshman majoring in business administration and a member of the Objectivist Club.
Witnesses said that the protesters also stood up and sang in unison about the death of Muslims during the Iraq war.
UCLA ticket
lines run down Trousdale
Many students forgot to purchase tickets on their assigned pickup dates.
By VICTOR FARFAN
Contributing Writer
The Ticket Office was jam-packed Monday with students waiting to purchase USC-UCLA football tickets.
The line stretched beyond the office’s open doors and extended outside of the Student Union Building, spilling onto Trousdale Parkway.
Many students worried the Ticket Office would close its doors and they wouldn’t be able to buy their tickets; however, the office decided to accommodate students by remaining open well past its 5 p.m. closing time.
Shannon Forbes Burkhead, a sophomore majoring in political science, waited 40 minutes to purchase her tickets.
“I feel like I’m waiting in a line at Disney World,” she said.
“Only there's no Space Mountain at the end.”
Some students forgot that today was their assigned day to pick up tickets and remembered Once they saw
the long line. ——•- : - -~r~ - --------
“I didn’t know about it until I saw the line at 4 (p.m.),” said Tonya Diller-Robertson, a senior majoring in accounting. »
“But I had to go to class.... I wish (the Ticket Office) would have given us a reminder.”
Other students were upset they had to bring the Spirit Activities Card of another student in order to redeem more than one ticket.
Laura Keller, a junior majoring in print journalism, couldn’t buy her tickets because she.
Like many othej: students, forgot to bring another Activities Card with her and had to call a friend and wait for her to arrive.
“I think they should have highlighted the fact that you needed to bring another Activities Card,” Keller said.
Debra Duncan, director of the Ticket Office, said the line only became busier toward the end of the day.
Duncan said the Ticket Office sent e-mails assigning students separate purchase dates in order to prevent everyone from showing up on the same day.
Many students, however, missed their appointed days.
For students who have not yet picked up their tickets for the UCLA game, today is the last day to do so.
condoms
“During parts of the lecture, they sang songs in protest against the treatment of Muslims,” said Ilya Golosker, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering. “People started yelling and interrupting Bernstein.” "Nuclear holocaust is the ARI policy,” said Michael Steger, a spokesman for the LaRouche Political Action Committee, “Their director, Yaron Brook, is a Nazi who has called for the death of civilian Muslims to end the Iraq war.”
Witnesses said a purple-robed protester also interrupted the lecture, claimed that he was Ayn Rand and threw condoms with Vice President Dick Cheney’s and other political
I see Protest, page 3 I
INDEX
Trojans take more businesslike approach after weekend loss to Oregon State. 16
Obama’s visit to USC could be better spent elsewhere. 4
News Digest.......2 Lifestyle.............. 7
Upcoming_________2 Classifieds.......12
Opinions...,.........4 Sports.............16
WEATHER
Today: Cloudy. High 69, low 56.
Tomorrow: Cloudy. High 73. low 58.
Halloween is more than candy and costumes
The Irish Celtic festival came to America after 2 million Irish immigrated to the United States in the mid 19th century.
By MMME OXMAN
Staff Writer
Wilshire Boulevard’s Sav-on looked like it had been hit by a tornado at. 7 p.m. Friday. With hardly any candy left in the store, the shelves were emptier than ever.
Teens were trying on the few costumes left in the costume aisle, and mothers were moving bins around to find favorite candies that might have been hidden on the shelves.
Spending this Halloween is expected to reach $4.96 billion, a significant jump from the $3.29 billion spent last year, according to the National Retail Federation’s Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch.
Nearly two-thirds, or 63.8 percent, of consumers will celebrate Halloween
this year, up from the 52.5 percent who celebrated in 2005, according to the survey.
Nearly 75 percent of consumers will hand out candy, one of the most popular Halloween activities. Almost 35 percent of consumers will dress in costumes and slightly less than 20 percent will visit a haunted house.
Consumers are expected to increase personal spending as well. The survey found the average consumer plans to spend about $60 on Halloween this year, up from about $50 last year.
Although the secularized and commercialized Halloween is now the most recognizable form of the holiday, some people might not realize Halloween originated by the Celts as a harvest festival.
Jaclyn Kalkhurst, the student leader of Pagan and Wiccans at USC and a
junior majoring in theater stage management, said she understands where the symbolism of today’s Halloween festivities comes from.
“The portrayal of witches comes from witch burnings,” Kalkhurst said. The idea of ghosts corresponds to the focus on ancestors during this time and the fact that this is a death period for nature, she said.
“Now you can dress up as whatever you want,” Kalkhurst said. “So it’s all an extended version of this symbolism.”
The agricultural and spiritual time of reflection has changed from religious festivities to a commercialized holiday of costumes and candy in America. It has also become one of retailers’ favorite days of the year.
Mass-produced Halloween costumes did not appear in stores in America until the 1950s, when trick-or-treating became a fixture of the holiday.
“We don’t focus on the harvest like before,” Kalkhurst said. “It’s a completely different celebration now where
kids dress up.”
The Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, associate dean of Religious Life, said she doesn’t enjoy the commercialization of Halloween but can ignore it
“Deep down, Fm glad the folk memory exists,” she said.
Halloween traditions have changed since the holiday’s induction into America after the trans-Atlantic migration of about 2 million people from Ireland following the Irish potato famine during the middle of the 19th century.
When Halloween was celebrated during that period, it was a day filled with religious festivities and European traditions and was later appropriated by Christian missionaries.
Many European traditions consider Halloween as a time during the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world. It is also a time when magic is most potent.
Davenport said Celtic traditions have a strong sense of living with the
I see Halloween, page 6 I